Re: true physical hunger vs. 'satisfied' sensations: Slow Food Tenets

[Guest guest]

Hi Jeanne:

In my post on the LHIE board about 'Slow Food Tenets', I described 3 suggestions

that helped me finally resolve my difficulties with overeating at meals. Maybe I

should have posted those 'tenets' here, because my post didn't elicit any

response on the other board. Anyway, what really helped me to stop eating when I

feel comfortably full was committing to:

1) ONLY EAT WHEN I'M SITTING AT A TABLE. (I don't feel as satisfied if

I eat out of a container standing at the kitchen counter! Also premail snacks

while preparing food, decrease my hunger for the meal I really wanted to eat.)

(4) SAVOR WHAT I'M EATING. (When I eat quickly without focussing on the textures

and flavors of the food, I miss the food's flavor. What we consider taste is

really smell. Taste only includes sweet, salty, sour, bitter. However, slow

chewing releases foods' odors to the

nose, which can detect subtle differences between flavors. To me savoring also

means putting my utensil or food down between bites, thoroughly chewing each

bite without drinking, rather than washing down unchewed bites, not taking

another bite until I finish the first bite and not talking while I'm chewing, as

well as chewing each bite until it's almost liquid. By the time I do all that, I

get really bored with eating and am glad to stop eating when I feel full.)

(3) I DON'T EAT WHEN I AM NOT HUNGRY. (When I eat when not hungry, I

don't have a clear 'no longer hungry' stopping point, and often eat more than

necessary.)

Best of all, I don't have after meal indigestion when I really savor each bite

of the meal.

I'll post the rest of the 'slow food tenets' here if you're interested.

SUE

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> Hi,

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> The signals of physical hunger have been far easier to recognize than the

sensations of comfortable fullness.  It has been both challenging and

frustrating to determine what " comfortable fullness "  feels like for my body, but

I try to eat only until the food no longer tastes good and/or when I hear that

inner voice telling me  " enough. "  

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> Jeanne   

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[Guest guest]

Hi Sue,

I did see your post regarding the slow food tenets on the IEHL board and apologize for not commenting sooner. I found that post very helpful and think maybe you should post on the IE board as well.

You know, I don't have trouble recognizing when I'm hungry nor when I'm stuffed, but it is that in-between stuff (comfortable fullness) that has been kind of difficult for me to identify or recognize. In the IE book (pg. 151), ET and ER write, "Some people use food to cope when they have no idea that's what they're doing. They think that they're overeating "just because it tastes good." If you find that you're doing quite a bit of eating when you're not biologically hungry, then there's a good chance that you are using food to cope." Tenet no. 3 and your comment were particularly helpful. I suspect this is one reason why I've had difficulty in identifying what comfortable fullness is for me because for so long I've eaten when I wasn't hungry. Also, I don't what to use being able to eat what I want, whenever I want, just because I want as an excuse to overeat.

Hope this makes sense and isn't too confusing!

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Hi Sue,

I did see your post regarding the slow food tenets on the IEHL board and apologize for not commenting sooner. I found that post very helpful and think maybe you should post on the IE board as well.

You know, I don't have trouble recognizing when I'm hungry nor when I'm stuffed, but it is that in-between stuff (comfortable fullness) that has been kind of difficult for me to identify or recognize. In the IE book (pg. 151), ET and ER write, "Some people use food to cope when they have no idea that's what they're doing. They think that they're overeating "just because it tastes good." If you find that you're doing quite a bit of eating when you're not biologically hungry, then there's a good chance that you are using food to cope." Tenet no. 3 and your comment were particularly helpful. I suspect this is one reason why I've had difficulty in identifying what comfortable fullness is for me because for so long I've eaten when I wasn't hungry. Also, I don't what to use being able to eat what I want, whenever I want, just because I want as an excuse to overeat.

Hope this makes sense and isn't too confusing!

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Hi Sue,

I did see your post regarding the slow food tenets on the IEHL board and apologize for not commenting sooner. I found that post very helpful and think maybe you should post on the IE board as well.

You know, I don't have trouble recognizing when I'm hungry nor when I'm stuffed, but it is that in-between stuff (comfortable fullness) that has been kind of difficult for me to identify or recognize. In the IE book (pg. 151), ET and ER write, "Some people use food to cope when they have no idea that's what they're doing. They think that they're overeating "just because it tastes good." If you find that you're doing quite a bit of eating when you're not biologically hungry, then there's a good chance that you are using food to cope." Tenet no. 3 and your comment were particularly helpful. I suspect this is one reason why I've had difficulty in identifying what comfortable fullness is for me because for so long I've eaten when I wasn't hungry. Also, I don't what to use being able to eat what I want, whenever I want, just because I want as an excuse to overeat.

Hope this makes sense and isn't too confusing!

Jeanne